Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1882 — Romance of a Poor Young Girl. [ARTICLE]

Romance of a Poor Young Girl.

A lady correspondent at Genter White Creek, Washington County, sends us the following romance of real life. It concerns a native of Washington County. She says: Five years ago a poor and modest country girl of twenty-one summers, following the path of duty, enlisted in the holy wars and sailed with a band of brothers to a far-off heathen shore, leaving behind her two rejected aud likewise miserable lovers ; one a lad of low condition, the other a regular patrician. But the heathen have souls to be saved, and for four years our self-sacrificing heroine followed the noble calling she had chosen. Early in May, 1881, our fair toiler in the vineyard, deeming that the heathens were sufficiently converted to admit of a visit to her' native shore, resigned her charge for a period and sailed, via England, for her own home and harbor. An English nobleman who chanced to be among the passengers became interested in the poor American, and ere the good ship anchored at Liverpool had offered his hand, heart and fortune and been accepted. *At London the lovers parted soon to meet again, to receive a father’s blessing and part no more. The bride of the future continued her journey alone with her trousseau, and was soon welcomed in New York by a host of admiring relatives and the forgotten lovers. Preparations were commenced for the reception of the noble, and the disappointed lovers sighed for the things which “might have been.” But alas! the nobleman met with a financial misfortune. Tenderly did he break the news to the distant fair one, nobly releasing her from promises which might become irksome. The humble ana faithful suitor (who chanced to be nearest), soon became dearest, and the weary heart, taken on the rebound, surrendered gracefully, and they were united in the holy bonds of matrimony, at the residence of the bride’s parents. —Troy Times.